by Henry Oliner | Jan 31, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) It is odd that the United States is so often the advocate of elections and plebiscitary democracy abroad....
by Henry Oliner | Jan 30, 2017 | Politics
from The Worst Perversion, by Kevin Williamson at National Review: Not only was the Obama administration marked by scandal of the most serious sort — perverting the machinery of the state for political ends — it was on that front, which is the most important one, the...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 29, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) Finally, and perhaps more important, power accumulated to do good can be used subsequently to do ill. When...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 28, 2017 | Media
From The Federalist, Donald Trump Is The First President To Turn Postmodernism Against Itself by David Ernst: Democrats gleefully welcomed Trump’s victory in the Republican primaries with the expectation that they’d bury him in a pile of condescension for being a...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 28, 2017 | Economy, Politics
From Peggy Noonan at The Wall Street Journal, Trump Tries to Build a ‘Different Party’: The lengthy, public and early meeting with the union leaders was, among other things, first-class, primo political pocket-picking. The Trump White House was showing the Democratic...
